Wake Up Call: Fisher & Phillips Makes Inaugural Push Into Mexico

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Fisher & Phillips will employ 30 attorneys in three new Mexican offices it has opened, Law.com reports. The labor and employment law firm offices are in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Querétaro. The move is the firm’s first push into Mexico. (Law.com)

The UK’s Slaughter and May wants workers from a lower socio-economic background to make up a fourth of its workforce by 2033, the Global Legal Post reports. The firm says its the first among major rivals to set social mobility targets. (The Global Legal Post)

Elon Musk attorney Alex Spiro told The New Yorker he has “a photographic memory, basically—that’s my special secret sauce.” The Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner said in a profile that his “ability to sleep three and a half hours a day” is also key. (The New Yorker)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Heather McDevitt, chair-elect of White & Case, has made additional appointments to the executive committee that will be effective Sept. 1.
• Atoussa Mahmoudpour has joined Cozen O’Connor as a member in the North American corporate law group and will chair the Canadian life sciences and technology practice in Vancouver, B.C.
• Fisher Phillips has announced the launch of its first international offices in Mexico.
• Blank Rome has opened a new office in Dallas with six partners.
• Joseph A. Gallo has joined Lewis Brisbois as a partner in the general liability practice in Newark, N.J.
• David Bixby has returned to Lewis Roca as part of the healthcare industry team in Phoenix.